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[4_toteachus]

[For a while after the pages thing, Four found it hard to get himself interested in anything. After all the chasing he had done, he's still all alone. His family isn't here, and he wonders if they'll ever be here. He knows that if he doesn't give himself something to do, he'll slowly drive himself crazy by sitting in a corner and going through every moment he had spent with each of his family members.

It doesn't take him long to give himself a project. He has made a few friends here, so maybe it's time to appreciate them. This is way better than sitting around and moping all day.]

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I have a present for you. I made them myself :)

Also I have a question for everyone else:

What makes something beautiful?

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[dontasktrix]

No problems with learning.

So, what is romantic?

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[4_toteachus]

Beautiful things. On both a symbolic and physical level.

Tragedy is romantic too sometimes I suppose.

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[dontasktrix]

Tragic? [OK, so....]

The Decepticon Cause could be pretty romantic, about now. Noble freedom fighters, oppressed by a corrupt regime, exiled from their homeworld, on a quest for a sacred artifact.

Only to be done in by a maintenanace bot and.... [What's that thing about a flaw in some character?] vaulting ambition!

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[4_toteachus]

Now that sounds like an interesting story! And it does sound romantic in its own way.

A little off topic but... what's the story behind your war?

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[dontasktrix]

The Autobot and Decepticon factions had always had differing philosophies, but I guess things started to lead to The Great War, when that Autobot, Ultra, got the Decepticon Registration Act passed. Megatron was already leader of the Decepticons then, like 12 million stellar cycles ago, and he published some manifesto in response.

He's not the greatest leader, but he is good at making speeches. [She'll give Megatron that. Slipstream is hardly a historian, but she knows Starscream is a veteran of the war, and he hadn't really started to outwardly plot against Megatron until they started to search for the AllSpark.]

The war wasn't official until later, when the issue of the AllSpark couldn't be resolved otherwise. The Autobots were the fools who sent a super-powerful artifact off world, where anyone could find it! Don't know why they didn't want to use the AllSpark to bring life to Cybertron.

Things went back and forth with both factions having wins and losses. Autobot scientists are always developing tools for war! Space bridges to move troops. The Omega Sentinels!

Decepticons took the last of those out in the Battle for Iacon, but the Autobots had already off-lined so many of us! If Megatron hadn't spent so much time searching for the AllSpark - splitting his focus from the war - things probably would have gone differently! [Or maybe that's Starscream talking.]

The Tyrest Accord was signed after that. [She frowns, head bowed slightly.] I supposed it was a bad decision, just agreeing to exile, away from our homeworld! But, maybe if Megatron hadn't agreed to exile in exchange for amnesty, continued fighting would have destroyed all of Cybertron, and those stellar cycles couldn't have been used for rebuilding.

That's what happened on some other Cybertrons, apparently. If that had happened, would there have even been hope of returning with the AllSpark to reclaim our homeworld?

[Now, Slipstream's not sure whether or not she approves of any of Starscream or Megatron's past decisions. And, since she's pretty sure Optimus took the AllSpark - most of it - to Cybertron, with Megatron prisoner, she doesn't see there being much hope for the Decepticons. At least the imprisoned Decepticons had managed to set foot on their homeworld.]